There is a widespread (mis)understanding of science that the universe and life are accidents without any purpose and meaning. Is it true that science is fundamentally incapable of showing purpose to the universe? The consciousness-integrated Holistic Science provides answers.
In his popular cosmology book The First Three Minutes, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg concluded: "The more the universe appears comprehensible, the more it also appears pointless." This comment echoes the sentiment of many contemporary scientists. Even if some point to the awe and wonder of the natural world, they nevertheless fail to see any purpose to the universe.
Richard Dawkins, in the following short documentary, concludes that there is no inherent purpose to the universe and the ultimate purpose is defined by us – the human beings:
- The Big Question: Why are we here? Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YY3Uu9jPDk&feature=related
Weinberg’s and Dawkins’ conclusion are not surprising in light of the embarrassing failure of the incomplete mainstream science to explain 96% of the universe. And historically speaking, the human ego has, over the centuries, declared victory by pronouncing itself to be the center of the universe.
In spite of their successes within their limited domains, both the biological and physical sciences are severely limited in their scope and hence fail to define a wholesome purpose of human existence or the universe. While the biological sciences limit their investigations to the bodily evolution of species (mainly primates), the mainstream science (physics & cosmology) has limited its investigations to the inanimate matter just because all its measuring tools and methods are restricted to the classical instruments and fixed (Newtonian) space & time of the material world. Both address the evolution (without recognizing the driving force behind the evolution) but none of them address the fundamental origin or how either the life or matter came into being in the first place.
Not knowing the origin of life and matter, it is impossible to know their purposes. The mistaken conclusion of the mainstream science that universe and life are accidents without any purposes is an artifact of the incomplete (devoid of consciousness) quantum mechanics that mistakenly presumes the physically measured uncertainty as the foundation of the universe.
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